Hey Dad...for Father's Day

I hope that you had a good fathers day. the food sounds great! Im glad that tash's party went well. Im bummed that we wont be able to go on the cruise when i get back haha, i was looking forward to that but thats ok. Yeah south america would be cool too. I have a ton of friends from there now from the mission and it will be summer there. Im doing well, i got a call from president today that im training again. She is the only spanish sister that is coming into the mission. its the winns last few weeks with us too so everyone has just been a little bit sad about that. other than that things are good. dad, check out this video on mormon.org called "Earthly Father, Heavenly Father". its awesome. Love you Rin

Dont Worry..Be happy!

Sister Rinna Adorable was assuring me, her mom, that Sister Amanda Adorable will be okay as she prepares at the MTC for her mission to Atlanta. As I prepare to take over the blog, she assures me everything will be okay! Mom, good job on amanda's blog! its soo cute! She is doing so great and im so excited for her to enter the field this week :) Love you Hermana Adorable

Transfer

Hola Familia! Thanks for the letters! I havent gotten the package yet but im sure its coming soon. Im so sad that i didnt get to hear from amanda, she said that she is going to send me a letter though. Im glad that she is doing well and that she likes her companion. Ive been praying that she will get a good trainer this week. Tash, who's brian? and why havent i heard about him?? haha Lets see this past week was a little bit crazy! nothing too exciting to mention but it just was super busy and went by really fast. Story: Sister Cleveland told us that one of our investigators needed our help on Friday. So we planned on going over to help him. His name is Larry Lope. So i asked sister cleveland how many people needed to go and how long it would take. We took our district of 8 people and she told me that it would only take 10 minutes. We started at 11 and ended 10 minutes before 5 haha. We leveled the ground in Larry's backyard and laid down sod! It was a lot of work and so much fun! but i never want to do that again haha. The whole time Larry just kept saying "I dont know how i will ever be able to repay you" and we just kept thinking "no worries, when youre baptized in a few weeks well call it even" :) They are such a great family though, we loved helping them out. They actually remind me a lot of you and dad. Larry is super open but his wife Inez is super catholic and doesnt really want to hear anything from us. Advice mom? what did the missionaries do that helped soften your heart and have the desire to change? Saturday we helped one of our other investigators (angie) move houses. wayyy easier than laying down sod haha. it was fun! Yesterday we tried to transition one of our current investigators Mark to the YSA ward. He really really likes Hna Walker haha. So we took him to the YSA ward, it was weird being there. I definitely like the family ward better :) But i think that he liked it so that should be good and the elders will start teaching him. This upcoming week is going to be even crazier. Right now i have 3 comps. On wednesday Sister Arias goes back to temple square because she is done with her outbound mission here. Monday my 2 visa waiter companions go to Argentina. So Ill be with the english sisters for two days and then get a new companion on Wedesday. On Friday America and Jose are getting married! We are so excited for them and then Jose gets baptized on Saturday at 1 :) They are such a great couple and we are excited that they are taking these steps. I think thats pretty much all from this week. I have a ton of pics for you though so enjoy! Love you! Hermana Adorable

Can you believe its June?!!!!

Hola Familia! Mom! I cant believe someone broke into your car! So sorry that happened :( Haha Im not surprised at all that it was hard when Amanda left on her mission. It wont get any easier when Tash and Pao go either. Yeah its crazy that its already June! I really dont know when that happened, it was really just January haha. Tasha's grad party will be fun! Awww Pao and his first stake dance :) cute!! I cant wait to hear him play the piano again :) The journal sounds great! Thanks! Also YES I got the money, thanks sooooo much :)) it was an exciting surprise :) Amanda looks so cute!!!!!! Sister Adorable is going to be a wonderful missionary! This past week was good but it was a tough one. We were working so hard this whole week to help our investigator Maria prepare for her baptism on sunday night but in the end she decided that she was not going to get baptized yet. We were super bummed but still were able to feel a confirmation that we really had done everything that we needed to and that Heavenly Father was still proud of us. We had a really cool experience though. My comp has been attacked by bugs and has a ton of bites. There was one on her arm and it was swelling and spreading so we took her to the doctor. The nurse that took us back is a less active member that we had been trying to contact for a long time. She has 2 unbaptized daughters. So Tasha, the less active member, was our nurse! It was crazy because she never works in instacare. She was just assigned to work there for that day. She was supposed to be getting married soon. She started talking to us, she recognized us because we sang in church on sunday. She invited us to her wedding and then we met her daughters there so now we are going to start teaching them and they want to get baptized! It was a wonderful miracle. On tuesday we had a special meeting with just the sisters in the mission. It was really cool. I thought that they were just going to talk a lot about how there are a ton of sisters coming into the mission and about sister leadership positions buuut it wasnt at all. we just talked a lot about motherhood. we talked a lot about how we are going to be the mothers of the children that are going to usher in the coming of the Savior. sooo cool right? they talked a lot about how the Lord needed us to come on missions not only to help his children come unto Him through baptism but also that He needed us to come on mission because it is the best preparation for us to be the mothers of these valiant and noble children. then we all had pedicures and a catered dinner :) it was fun! Inline image 1 We just found out this past week that my 2 visa waiter companions now have their visas so they are leaving on the 17th. My other companion is a temple square assigned missionary that was doing her outbound here in salt lake. She goes back to temple square next wednesday. Then the week after that is transfers! So crazy. I love this area, it really is the promised land of the mission. I think that my body is starting to die a little bit though ahah, on pday we just sleep until we have to go out and work again. I love this mission and being able to be a part of this work, its the best ever! Inline image 2 Inline image 3 Sister Walker and Sister Cleveland (my favorite VISA waiters ) Love you so much and hope that you have a good week! Hermana Adorable

Layton

Rinna didn't have very much time to email this week but so far she is loving Layton! She says the work is amazing and she will tell us more next week! Pics of Hermana's district, daughters, and roommates :)

Transfers: Layton and a New Companion

Hola familia! Sooo this week was crazy! Transfers were on Wednesday and they moved me to Layton. I absolutely love this area! The ward is huge and everyone is so great. I love love love my companion Sister Walker. She is great, she is a really hard worker and really wants to be here. We live a little bit out of the area in Kaysville but its not too far of a drive. Sister Walker and I are in a car. The other two sisters are on bikes. There are 8 missionaries serving in this ward with me! crazy huh? 4 of them are waiting for visas for argentina. Wednesday was my first day in the area. It was raining super hard. I am the only person with driving privileges in my companionship and we were trying to get to know the area. Well i got pulled over by the police ha. He wasnt very nice, he pulled 3 people over right after me. Also i dont think it helped that he didnt really like missionaries that much. sad. Saturday night there was a ward talent show. It was super good and cute but wayy long. Sister Walker and I sang in the show because they reserved a spot for the missionaries to do something, so we just put something together quickly. Yesterday was soo great to be able to talk to you all! Paolo has gotten so tall and soo good at the piano. I want a CD of him playing things like that :) Tash will have fun at prom! Im so excited that Amandas going into the MTC! Since the Slays dooo live in my area, you should take a trip through Layton before he drives you there...just an idea ;) Something that i ate yesterday was no bueno...feeling kinda sick today. Sister Walker feels sick too. Anyway im so excited to be here! Love you all and hope that you have a good week! Hermana Adorable

End of a Transfer, Baptisms, Hiking Ensign Peak, and Going to the Temple

Hola familia! Im so excited that i get to see all of you on sunday!! Still have no idea whos house and at what time but will call you later in the week once i get that figured out in my new area. This past week was sooooo awesome! We worked so hard and saw so many miracles. We put a family of 4 on date to be baptized on June 1st :) Later that night we were planning and trying to figure out how we were going to get more people to church on sunday and right when i said that, someone from an english ward called us and said that he met someone that wants to go to church on sunday! It was such a testimony builder to me that Heavenly Father really is helping us in His work. So we set up an appointment with this brother and his wife to meet Adriana at her work. We went over the next day and she was solid! So excited to come to church. Later we chatted with the brother and sister and their daughter married a Filipino guy. Hes from Manila too. He said he was a famous child actor in a movie called Magic Temple? Do you know who im talking about?? Anyway that was a really cool experience this week. BEST THING OF THE WEEK: Mery Bustamante got baptized yesterday!! Sister Harris and I started out teaching her back in November and she knew everything but just didnt feel like it was her time. Sister Nesbit and I started teaching her again last transfer and she finally felt a confirmation that this is her time to be baptized. Last sunday we were bummed because she told us that she was going to have to move her date (originally on april 20) because her grandson had a chuck e cheese bday party. BUT she was solid yesterday and was so excited to get baptized even though she was super sick with a cold. Somehow after her baptism her cold was pretty much gone. way cool. She asked me to sing at her baptism too so that was special and a great way to end the weekend here. Today we hiked Mt Ensign with half of the mission and it was so fun! I was dying ha but it was good and the view was beautiful. President Winn said something cool at the top. He said, " The Lord could have sent you anywhere; Africa, Asia, South America, Russia. But instead, he sent those people to you here. THink about how special you all are to have to privilege to teach all of those brothers and sisters from all around the world right here in Salt Lake City" Sooo cool :) I love love this mission! The hike was super steep but fun :) and the weather was great :) All of that was great but probably the most rewarding thing that happened this week is that my comp came up to me and told me that she now wants to be here and be a missionary! I was sooo excited! Well i think thats about all for this week! Love you all and miss you! SOOO Excited to see you on sunday! :) (ps sometime at night will probably be best after church and meetings ) Have a great week! Hermana Adorable